Donald Trump is spending a part of his Sunday afternoon behind the counter at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. The previous president, who has often stated he loves the chain’s meals, donned an apron to work the fry machine and hand meals to clients on the drive-thru. It’s an try to deliver consideration to his unfounded allegations that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, didn’t work there throughout faculty.
When requested why he needed to return to the fast-food restaurant, Trump responded, “I like McDonald’s. I like jobs. I prefer to see good jobs and I feel it’s inappropriate when somebody places down that they labored at McDonald’s … She [Harris] by no means labored at McDonald’s.
“Ought to I give them further salt?” Trump requested a McDonald’s employee whereas salting fries.
A spokesperson for the Harris-Walz marketing campaign stated in a press release to Rolling Stone: “As we speak, Donald Trump confirmed precisely what we might see in a second Trump time period: exploiting working individuals for his personal private achieve. Trump doesn’t perceive what it’s prefer to work for a residing, irrespective of what number of staged photograph ops he does, and his whole second time period plan is to offer himself, his rich buddies, and large companies one other huge tax minimize. Vice President Harris, however, has a document of standing up for employees and taking up dangerous actors who rip individuals off, and he or she’ll do the identical as president.”
A marketing campaign official informed CNN that she labored at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, in the summertime of 1983 whereas a scholar at Howard College, working the register in addition to the fry and ice cream machines.
“I did fries. After which I did the cashier,” Harris stated on Drew Barrymore’s discuss present in April.
Trump, who just lately complained that he “used to hate to pay time beyond regulation” to his staff, has proposed insurance policies that will finish taxes on time beyond regulation and suggestions. Harris has proposed an identical no tax on suggestions coverage for hospitality and repair business employees.
“I do know lots about time beyond regulation. I hated to offer time beyond regulation, I hated it. I’d get different individuals — I shouldn’t say this, however I’d get different individuals in. I wouldn’t pay,” Trump stated at a Pennsylvania rally final month, principally confessing to committing wage theft.
Reacting to Trump’s remarks on the time, the Harris marketing campaign stated in a press release to The Every day Beast that Trump “is lastly proudly owning as much as it: He’s constructed a complete profession on screwing over employees. It’s precisely what he did within the White Home — attempting to tear away suggestions and time beyond regulation pay for tens of millions of employees — and precisely what he plans to do in a second time period.”
When CBS Information reporter Olivia Rinaldi asked Trump on the drive-thru whether or not he helps elevating the minimal wage for employees like these employed by McDonald’s, the previous president didn’t give a solution, solely saying, “Properly, I feel this. These individuals work onerous. They’re nice. And I simply noticed one thing … a course of that’s stunning.” Through the 2020 marketing campaign, Trump vocally opposed elevating the minimal wage.
The owner-operator of the Feasterville, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s that Trump visited issued a press release: “As a small, unbiased enterprise proprietor, it’s a basic worth of my group that we proudly open our doorways to everybody who visits the Feasterville group. That’s why I accepted former President Trump’s request to watch the transformative working expertise that one in eight People have had: a job at McDonald’s.”
The restaurant was not open on the time of Trump’s go to. An indication on the shop stated it could be closed Sunday “till 4 p.m. to accommodate a go to on the request of former President Trump and his marketing campaign.”
This story has been up to date to incorporate statements from the Harris-Walz marketing campaign and from Feasterville, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s owner-operator Derek Giacomantonio.